Time-warp to 2004, pay $4,500 and get Twitter.com
For the entrepreneur out there building a time machine, here’s a way to put your device to profitable use. Go back to 2004 and buy the domain Twitter.com for $4,500.
A reader recently pointed me to the Internet Archive entries for the site — here’s the domain for sale in all its latent glory.
Twitter, of course, didn’t even start with its current name. It launched with the more Web 2.0-y and much harder-to pronounce Twttr name, back in July of 2006. It changed its name to Twitter shortly thereafter. I’m not sure how much it ended up paying for the domain. But, by the time I started hearing local buzz about Twitter in the winter of 2007, the Twttr name was long gone.
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Eric currently covers digital media technology and business news, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He also writes and edits stories about venture capital, and lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers. The startup didn't work out, but he learned a lot.